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Strait Settlements

Straits Settlements
Negeri-negeri Selat
نݢري٢ سلت
叻嶼呷
British colony
1826–1942
Japanese Occupation: 1942–45
1945–1946
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem
God Save the King (1826–1837; 1901–1942; 1945–46)
God Save the Queen (1837–1901)
Malaya in 1922:
  Unfederated Malay States
  Federated Malay States
  Straits Settlements
Singapore from St Andrew's Church Spire, 1863.
Capital Penang
(1826–1832)

Singapore
(1832–1946)
Languages
Government
Monarch
 •  1826–30 George IV
 •  1830–37 William IV
 •  1837–1901 Victoria
 •  1901–10 Edward VII
 •  1910–36 George V
 •  1936 Edward VIII
 •  1936–42; 1945–46 George VI
Governor
 •  1826–30 (first) Robert Fullerton
 •  1934–42; 1945–46 (last) Shenton Thomas
Historical era British Empire
 •  Anglo-Dutch Treaty 17 March 1824
 •  Established under
    East India Co. rule
1826
 •  Converted to
    Crown colony

1 April 1867
 •  Labuan incorporated 1 January 1907
 •  Fall of Singapore 15 February 1942
 •  Formal surrender
    by Japan to British
    Military Administration


12 September 1945
 •  Federated to
    Federation of Malaya and
    Crown colony
    of Singapore



1 April 1946
 •  Labuan to British
    North Borneo

15 July 1946
Currency
Preceded by
Succeeded by
History of Penang#Early days
Founding of modern Singapore
Dutch Malacca
Dindings
Malayan Union
Colony of Singapore
Colony of Malacca
Colony of Penang
Today part of  Malaysia
 Singapore
 Australia

The Straits Settlements (Malay: Negeri-negeri Selat, نݢري٢ سلت; Chinese: 叻嶼呷/海峽殖民地) were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a Crown colony on 1 April 1867. The colony was dissolved in 1946 as part of the British reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies following the end of the Second World War.

The Straits Settlements consisted of the four individual settlements of Malacca, Dinding, Penang (which consists of Penang Island, formerly known as Prince of Wales Island; and Seberang Perai on the mainland, formerly known as Province Wellesley) and Singapore (with Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands). The island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, was also incorporated into the colony with effect from 1 January 1907, becoming a separate settlement within it in 1912. Most of the territories now form part of Malaysia, from which Singapore gained independence in 1965. The Cocos (or Keeling) Islands were transferred to Australian control in 1955. Christmas Island was transferred in 1958. They were combined in 1996 to form the Australian Indian Ocean Territories.

The establishment of the Straits Settlements followed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, by which the Malay archipelago was divided into a British zone in the north and a Dutch zone in the south. This resulted in the exchange of the British settlement of Bencoolen (on Sumatra) for the Dutch colony of Malacca and undisputed control of Singapore. The Settlements were largely Chinese in population, with a tiny but important European minority. Their capital was moved from Penang to Singapore in 1832. Their scattered nature proved to be difficult and, after the company lost its monopoly in the china trade in 1833, expensive to administer.


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